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ARTICLE REVIEW1Article 1McLaughlin, H., Uggen, C. and Blackstone, A., 2012. Sexual harassment, workplaceauthority, and the paradox of power.American sociological review,77(4), pp.625-647.The term sexual harassment did not come into introduction until the twentiethcentury. In recent times, several organizations, sexual workshops, laws and policies havebeen formulated to observe and identify the core issues related to the increased growth ofsexual harassment along with other forms of gender discrimination. This article examines thecruelty, atrocities and harassment in a broader sense. Several feminist theorists have broadlyevaluated the growing patterns of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination drawing a clearassociation with harassment to sexual inequality. This article discusses about the argumentsstated on Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity that societal norms and privilegesencourage the sole normative principle of the attitudes of men towards the women of thesociety. However, it must be taken into account that sexual harassment must be implementedas a tool to restrict and further regulate the suitable ways of ‘doing gender’ in the context ofworkplace and thus to reprimand gender eccentricity. According to the authors of this article,women who possess authoritarian positions provide and interesting contradiction for theoryand investigation based on sexual harassment and theorists have advanced two discretepositions. The first assumption that is related to vulnerable-victim hypothesis advocates thatworkers belonging to vulnerable and marginal sections, which includes women, marginalizedracial groups and the ones attached to precarious situations are vulnerable and thus subjectedto higher tendencies of sexual harassment. The article further highlights the scenarios womenexperience when they belong to higher and superior positions in comparison to men faceexploitation and harassment by their opposite gender. The scenario for women have remained
ARTICLE REVIEW2unchanged as they still perform roles which are mostly underrepresented in areas of abilityor relegate to lower segments of management. What sampling procedure is used, and do you think it is appropriate?This article has implemented a triangulation method that is the usage of bothquantitative as well as qualitative data. The use of mixed methodology is significant in thisarticle in order to consider the three assumptions drawn from a fundamental integratedfeminist model of sexual violence by evaluating if managerial and administrative influence,gender identity along with industry gender composition which has association with eventsand experiences with sexual harassment (Fielding 2012). The use of well-establishedstatistical data to examine individual disparities the qualitative methods will offer predictionsof whether there are any specific accounts of information respondents provide against anydistressing actions and if the respondents provide subjectively explanations as harassment.Thus, a quantitative research methodology is required by implementing survey data in orderto evaluate the in-depth interviews of the respondents of Youth Development Study toenlighten the processes underlying these relationships (Mertens 2014). However, quantitativeresearch method sometimes faces criticisms as it provides assumptions regarding the sexualbehaviour in the workplace that causes harm and destruction to the dignity of women. What are the main concepts measured in the study, and do you think the measures usedare valid?The primary concept that has been measured in this study is the perceptions andnotions the respondents provide related to the attitudes towards sexual harassment. Thesampling survey consisted of 1010 youths during 1988. These participants were studying inthe ninth grade and have been interviewed until 2004 when they were almost thirty years old.The data gathered in 2004, has been analyzed was collected. The respondents were
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